Wikipedia's own article on the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a tertiary encyclopedic source. Its strength is that it records the building's own history plainly: construction from 1609 to 1617 under the architect Sedefkar Mehmed Agha for Sultan Ahmed I, the Iznik tile work that gives the building its popular Western name, and its calligraphic inscriptions, originally executed by Seyyid Kasim Gubari. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited encyclopedia entry: reliable for the outline, not a substitute for architectural or art historical scholarship on the building.
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Reliability Tier3
A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article rather than an authored or peer reviewed work, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations, useful for verifiable factual detail rather than as independent scholarly authority. NotesEncyclopedic facts for the mosque as a whole: construction from 1609 to 1617 under architect Sedefkar Mehmed Agha for Sultan Ahmed I, the Iznik tile work that gives the building its popular Western name, and the mosque's own calligraphic inscriptions, originally executed by Seyyid Kasim Gubari.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Ahmed_Mosque
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)
This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested. As cited relationships: 8 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 17 claims: 8 well-attested, 8 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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